page_title: Wassermann test
hierarchical_section_title: Wassermann test
caption_attribution_description: English: Low resolution screenshot from the American public domain exploitation film The Road to Ruin (1934). After Ann and Eve are taken into custody and given a physical examination, this card is shown indicating that Eve has a positive Wassermann test (misspelled in the film). The film does not explain that this test for antibodies indicates that Eve probably has syphilis. The card is later shown in the film with a "discharged" stamp.
context_page_description: The Wassermann test or Wassermann reaction is an antibody test for syphilis, named after the bacteriologist August Paul von Wassermann, based on complement fixation. It was the first blood test for syphilis and the first in the nontreponemal test category. Newer NTTs, such as the RPR and VDRL tests, have mostly replaced it.
context_section_description: The Wassermann test or Wassermann reaction (WR) is an antibody test for syphilis, named after the bacteriologist August Paul von Wassermann, based on complement fixation. It was the first blood test for syphilis and the first in the nontreponemal test (NTT) category. Newer NTTs, such as the RPR and VDRL tests, have mostly replaced it.
caption: The test was sufficiently familiar to American movie audiences that the 1934 exploitation film The Road to Ruin simply showed a card with a positive Wassermann test (misspelled in the film) without any further explanation to indicate a character had contracted syphilis.
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